“Big Data” originally emerged as a term to describe datasets whose size is beyond the ability of traditional databases to capture, store, manage and analyze. However, the scope of the term has significantly expanded over the years. Big Data not only refers to the data itself but also a set of technologies that capture, store, manage and analyze large and variable collections of data, to solve complex problems.

Amid the proliferation of real-time data from sources such as mobile devices, web, social media, sensors, log files and transactional applications, Big Data has found a host of vertical market applications, ranging from fraud detection to scientific R&D.

Despite challenges relating to privacy concerns and organizational resistance, Big Data investments continue to gain momentum throughout the globe. SNS Research estimates that Big Data investments will account for over $57 Billion in 2017 alone. These investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 10% over the next three years.

Who are the key Big Data software, hardware and services vendors and what are their strategies?

How much are vertical enterprises investing in Big Data?

What opportunities exist for Big Data analytics?

Which countries and verticals will see the highest percentage of Big Data investments?

The report has the following key findings:

In 2017, Big Data vendors will pocket over $57 Billion from hardware, software and professional services revenues. These investments are further expected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 10% over the next four years, eventually accounting for over $76 Billion by the end of 2020.

As part of wider plans to revitalize their economies, countries across the world are incorporating legislative initiatives to capitalize on Big Data. For example, the Japanese government is engaged in developing intellectual property protection and dispute resolution frameworks for Big Data assets, in a bid to encourage data sharing and accelerate the development of domestic industries.

By the end of 2017, SNS Research estimates that as much as 30% of all Big Data workloads will be processed via cloud services as enterprises seek to avoid large-scale infrastructure investments and security issues associated with on-premise implementations.

The vendor arena is continuing to consolidate with several prominent M&A deals such as computer hardware giant Dell’s $60 Billion merger with data storage specialist EMC.

List of Companies Mentioned

1010data

Absolutdata

Accenture

Actian Corporation

Actuate Corporation

Adaptive Insights

Adobe Systems

Advizor Solutions

AeroSpike

AFS Technologies

Airbus Group

Alameda County Social Services Agency

Alation

Algorithmia

Alluxio

Alphabet

Alpine Data

Alteryx

Altiscale

Ambulance Victoria

AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)

Amgen

Amino

ANSI (American National Standards Institute)

Antivia

Apixio

Arcadia Data

Arimo

ARM

ASF (Apache Software Foundation)

AstraZeneca

AT&T

Atos

AtScale

Attivio

Attunity

Automated Insights

AWS (Amazon Web Services)

Axiomatics

Ayasdi

BAE Systems

Baidu

Barclays Bank

Basho Technologies

BCG (Boston Consulting Group)

Bedrock Data

BetterWorks

Big Cloud Analytics

Big Panda

Bina Technologies

Biogen

Birst

Bitam

Blue Medora

BlueData Software

BlueTalon

BMC Software

BMW

BOARD International

Boeing

Booz Allen Hamilton

Boxever

British Gas

Brocade

BT Group

CACI International

Cambridge Semantics

Capgemini

Capital One Financial Corporation

Cazena

CBA (Commonwealth Bank of Australia)

CBP (U.S. Customs and Border Protection)

Centrifuge Systems

CenturyLink

Chartio

Cisco Systems

Civis Analytics

ClearStory Data

Cloudability

Cloudera

Clustrix

CognitiveScale

Collibra

Concurrent Computer Corporation

Confluent

Constant Contact

Contexti

Continuum Analytics

Coriant

Couchbase

Credit Agricole Group

CrowdFlower

CSA (Cloud Security Alliance)

CSCC (Cloud Standards Customer Council)

Databricks

DataGravity

Dataiku

Datameer

DataRobot

DataScience

DataStax

DataTorrent

Datawatch Corporation

Datos IO

DDN (DataDirect Networks)

Decisyon

Dell EMC

Dell Technologies

Deloitte

Delphi Automotive

Demandbase

Denodo Technologies

Denso Corporation

DGSE (General Directorate for External Security, France)

DHS (U.S. Department of Homeland Security)

Digital Reasoning Systems

Dimensional Insight

DMG (Data Mining Group)

Dolphin Enterprise Solutions Corporation

Domino Data Lab

Domo

Dow Chemical Company

DriveScale

DT (Deutsche Telekom)

Dubai Police

Dundas Data Visualization

DXC Technology

eBay

Edith Cowen University

Eligotech

Engineering Group (Engineering Ingegneria Informatica)

EnterpriseDB

eQ Technologic

Ericsson

EXASOL

Facebook

FDNY (Fire Department of the City of New York)

FICO (Fair Isaac Corporation)

Ford Motor Company

Fractal Analytics

Fujitsu

Fuzzy Logix

Gainsight

GE (General Electric)

Glasgow City Council

Glassbeam

GoodData Corporation

Google

Greenwave Systems

GridGain Systems

GSK (GlaxoSmithKline)

Guavus

HDS (Hitachi Data Systems)

Hedvig

Hitachi

Hortonworks

HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise)

HSBC Group

Huawei

IBM Corporation

ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

iDashboards

IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission)

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)

Impetus Technologies

INCITS (InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards)

Incorta

InetSoft Technology Corporation

Infer

Infor

Informatica Corporation

Information Builders

Infosys

Infoworks

InsightSquared

Intel Corporation

Interana

InterSystems Corporation

ISO (International Organization for Standardization)

ITU (International Telecommunications Union)

Jedox

Jethro

Jinfonet Software

JJ Food Service

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Juniper Networks

Kaiser Permanente

KALEAO

Keen IO

Kinetica

KNIME

Kofax

Kognitio

Kyvos Insights

Lavastorm

Lexalytics

Lexmark International

Linux Foundation

Logi Analytics

Longview Solutions

Looker Data Sciences

LucidWorks

Luminoso Technologies

Maana

Magento Commerce

Manthan Software Services

MapD Technologies

MapR Technologies

MariaDB Corporation

MarkLogic Corporation

Marriott International

Mathworks

Memphis Police Department

MemSQL

Mercer

METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan)

Metric Insights

Michelin

Microsoft Corporation

MicroStrategy

Ministry of State Security, China

Minitab

MongoDB

Mu Sigma

NASA (U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

Neo Technology

NetApp

Netflix

Neustar

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance

NextBio

NFL (U.S. National Football League)

Nimbix

NIST (U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Nokia

Northwest Analytics

Nottingham Trent University

Novartis

NSA (U.S. National Security Agency)

NTT Data Corporation

NTT Group

Numerify

NuoDB

Nutonian

NVIDIA Corporation

OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards)